Who's in the right here?

I am Brazilian, nationality that, to my shame, is the same as Coelho’s. You want to know what is the problem with Paulo Coelho? Here's the problem:

>a) As a writer.

He is a writer whose books deal only with esoteric themes, new age topics, pseudo-spiritualism and especially religion (a lot of religion). Paulo Coelho writes what people in general (and we all know that the general population does not have anything remarkable in the mental department) want to hear: he talks about the power of the human soul; about God and God's love for everyone; about things like “if you really want something and wish something, than this something will happen for the whole universe is going to conspire to make it happen [go tell that to terminal cancer patients who wish with all their souls, with all the juices in their bodies, the heat in their blood and marrows to just keep on living]”; he speaks that everyone can achieve great things and be significant (usually by just wanting to be so); he pseudo-philosophizes about life after death; talks about his own “experiences” with angels and demons, and so on. In other words: he is just a mix between a self-help writer and a dishonest-priest.

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>>9729290
>the brazilian wizard

fell for his meme in high school. own all of his works. the only book even worth reading is The Winner Stands Alone, and ONLY for the side-plot about the killer. he's really overrated and over hyped.

>>9729323
>b) As a human being.

Paulo Coelho is a despicable person. In reality he is a coward that poses as some kind of saint and guru (and anyone with half a neuron knows what gurus are made with). Some examples of the glorious life achievements of this fellow: when he was young he hit a child with a car and fled the spot with fear; in his youth he was also just a scrawny and shy, a fearful and frightened boy (his surname, Coelho, means rabbit, which is appropriate, since this animal is shy and fragile), but today he loves to tell interviewers about how he was "wild" and "crazy" in this days of youth, and that he was able to fight the demon, sober up and, after long years of toil, changed himself into a much more spiritual and enlightened being. He says he can control the weather and see angels and stuff like that (now, anyone who makes such claims is either psychotic or a charlatan, and Coelho’s eyes look too much like the eyes of a dead-fish to indicate that he actually suffers from some sort of mental illness – what remains is charlatanism). In fact you cannot see an interview with Paulo Coelho without wanting to vomit with his air of superiority and the faker-look. He once had an affair with a woman and got her pregnant. After undergoing an abortion, she had a heavy depression. Coelho encouraged her to attempt suicide (hiss reasons were that he through that such mystical and psychoanalytic approach, a kind of shock therapy, could help her). Paulo Coelho (in a biography written about him) appears forging the signature of his own father, plagiarizing a text from Carlos Heitor Cony (another Brazilian writer) and giving interviews about a meet with John Lennon that never happened. He is, in short, a bad character.

He is that typical character of Portuguese-catholic morals: that kind of people who talks about god and religion and saints and reading the bible but that are constantly acting like cowards and weak-willed sinners. You know, the 2 things that the suburbs and neighborhoods have in greater quantity in catholic countries are churches and bars: this is the typical contradiction of this kind of culture. People rant about Jesus and Mary and the holy ways that will conduct you to heaven and think that it is a big sin to miss Church, but this same people, after church and work, will go to the bars and drink all their salaries in cachaça, and gossip about others, and don’t pay the bills, and don’t go to school, and lie, and cheat, etc.

It is no wonder that Protestant countries in Europe are richer, wiser and much more organized and cultured than Catholic ones.

>>9729327
>It is no wonder that Protestant countries in Europe are richer, wiser and much more organized and cultured than Catholic ones.
Without the Catholic Church the western civilization wouldn't be as advanced as it is now, literature would be terrible, science would be struggling to develop and protestatism would not even exist to begin with. Be grateful to the Church and Catholics who made it possible for you to shitpost on your PC from the comfort of your house in a peaceful modern world.

>>9729323
>He is a writer whose books deal only with esoteric themes
let me fix that for you:
He is a writer whose books deal only with nonsense and pseud religion for fragile people and insecure people.

>>9729324
what are you talking about? he's been always shat on by everyone.
Brazilians only "read" him because he's made some money outside.

>>9729327
>Paulo Coelho is a despicable person.
No shit.
You don't need to read his auto-bio to get to that conclusion, just watch his interviews and you'll see how pretentious he is.

>>9729335
>Catholicism invented technology
No you should be thanking the Andalusian Muslims.

>>9729327
>He is that typical character of Portuguese-catholic morals
>Everything bad about Brasil is because of Portugal
Every single time.

>>9729349
No, it paved the way to technological advancement, the Church was the biggest contributor to scientific researches during the middle ages and created the universities. Also the belief in God and teaching of the Bible were inspiring for scientists and monks to learn more about the world around them and glorify God that way.

Had the Catholic Church failed, then the world would be dominated by pagans and babarians, that despised science and would rather do war. The mentality that we have today of 'development' is all thanks the progress the Catholic Church did in the past.

>>9729374
>if x didn't happen then y isn't possible
Except history doesn't work that way you mong.

>>9729381
Well, it is possible, but it is really unlikely. If all your arguments are going to be one-line ironies, then I would advise you to leave instead of embarrassing yourself even more.

>>9729327
>It is no wonder that Protestant countries in Europe are richer, wiser and much more organized and cultured than Catholic ones.
That really has nothing to do with it and you as a Brazilian should be well aware of why: it's about race, not religion.

>>9729327
What are gurus made with?

>>9729401
ceaseless desire to succeed and rule.

>>9729388
I'm not embarrassed. Brevity is the soul of wit faggot.

>>9729374
> the Church was the biggest contributor to scientific researches during the middle ages
Oh, sure. Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno and pretty much every middle-age intellectual or scientist would quote you on that, you catholic prick

>>9729578
How many books have you read on Galileo's story? How many history books have you read on the middle ages? Go on, make the list.

It's always amusing when people that have no knowledge on a subject goes on to give lessons based on things they learn in school or the media. But since I'm a good soul, let me help you out, read those and then come back to discuss again.

https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499526851&sr=8-1&keywords=how+the+catholic+church+built+western+civilization

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195177584/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1JAP61OH2BR79&coliid=I3ATMDOZEGR2VJ

>>9729323
>>9729327
Great posts.

>>9729686
Great book. The point that really drove it home for me was how so many of the early scientific minds, many of whom which were also pioneers in their field of study, were also known as "Father" or "Saint". That the establishment of the modern-day university system itself was founded on the basis of the monasteries being the hubs of academia and higher learning of their time, for the invaluable toil of the monks for their compulsive replication and trade of manuscripts, and also to stand in preservation of these stores of literature for centuries against the repeated invasions from Bjorn and Mohammed.